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Today Spotify announced product updates aiming to further differentiate in the saturated music streaming and growing podcast market.
1) International – 36 new languages and 85 markets (now total nearly 180)
2) Ad marketplace – Audience Network allowing to reach listeners on originals/exclusives, podcasts via Megaphone and Anchor. Podcast also coming to self-serve Ad Studio
3) HiFi – high-quality audio subscription competing with Tidal and Amazon Music HD
4) Paid podcast subscriptions – test to allow creators to publish paid podcasts via Anchor
5) WordPress partnership – to turn written audio content into podcasts via its podcast platform Anchor
6) Video – coming to more podcasts. Major miss for YouTube to alternate between background audio and video.
7) Interactive tools – with the ability for listeners to be part of the show incl Q&A, polls etc. Likely more to come in that area with the rise of Clubhouse.
8) Discovery Mode – self-serve tool for artists to run audience development campaigns.
9) Podcast discovery – better tools and recommendations
10) Lots of originals
Overall:
– 345M monthly users (+27% y/y)
– 155M subscribers (+24% y/y)
– 25% listen to podcasts
– 2.2m podcasts (3x from 2019)